Interactive fiction (Was: Re: turncoat)

John Costello cos at indeterminate.net
Wed Aug 22 17:45:09 BST 2007


On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Kake L Pugh wrote:

> On Wed 22 Aug 2007, Mark Morgan <makk384 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Or very ancient (think Atari 400/Commodore PET days) text adventure games...
> 
> Speaking of text adventure games, I just lost a morning to this:
>   http://www.wurb.com/if/game/1670
> 
> It was fun, but now I'm having trouble speaking English.
> 
> Kake
> (distunking her fesh by doatching at gostaks about halpocks)

Ack.

I'll take this moment to recommend "Twisty Little Passages" by Nick 
Montfort.  This is not light reading, unless you are fond of literary 
criticism, but Montfort is thorough and includes a number of IF resources.  

John
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"Thou shalt not partake of decaf!"--The Descendents



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